Krishna Yeshwant

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Bio

Professional summary

Krishna Yeshwant is a Managing Partner at GV. His official profile says he studied computer science at Stanford and helped start two technology companies before entering medicine. He later graduated from Harvard's MD/MBA program and served as an attending in internal medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital. He joined Google in 2008 and was involved in GV's early formation and its early commitment to life sciences investing. The profile says he helps steward GV's investing team and co-leads GV's life sciences group, with interests across the healthcare spectrum including care delivery, health IT, devices, diagnostics, payor/provider, and therapeutics. It lists early investments including Flatiron Health, Foundation Medicine, Relay Therapeutics, Beam Therapeutics, insitro, One Medical, and Aledade, and says he established GV's incubation program.

Investment focus

Stage, sector, and overall fit

Stage

Early-stage life sciences and healthcareIncubation

Sector

Life sciencesHealthcareCare deliveryHealth ITDevices and diagnosticsTherapeutics

Thesis

Healthcare and life sciences across the full spectrumCare delivery, health IT, devices, diagnostics, payor/provider, and therapeuticsClinical trial efficiency and software approaches to healthcare delivery

Notable companies

Selected portfolio companies the partner has backed

AledadeBeam TherapeuticsClover HealthDNAnexusFlatiron HealthFoundation MedicineHyperfine ResearchInsitroIsomorphic LabsNeuralinkOne MedicalRelay TherapeuticsROME TherapeuticsVerve Therapeutics

How to approach

Framing and angles for outreach

Pitch framing

Lead with a credible bridge between technology and medicine: clinical empathy, workflow realism, and measurable healthcare or life-sciences impact.

Partneralization hooks

1Combination of computer science, MD/MBA, and clinical internal-medicine experience
2Interest in exposing technologists to patient-care realities
3GV incubation program and company-creation experience

Recent signals

What the partner has said or done recently

Official profile says he is working on clinical trial efficiency and modern software approaches to healthcare delivery.

Background

Career, education, and skills

Career history

GV (Google Ventures)Managing Partner2008 - Present
Brigham and Women's HospitalAttending Physician, Internal MedicinePrior
EDI company (acquired by HP)Co-founderEarly career
Network security company (acquired by Symantec)Co-founderEarly career

Education

Harvard Medical School / Harvard Business SchoolMD/MBA, Medicine & Business
Stanford UniversityBS, Computer Science

Skills

Life Sciences InvestingHealthcareDrug DiscoveryDiagnosticsAI in Biology

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